Posthumous Diary / Diario Postumo

Posthumous Diary is not only about solitude and despair and the fear of death; it is also about those things that alleviate existential loneliness: the friendship that comes of shared interests and beliefs, and the consolations of art.

“There have been eloquent versions of Montale in English, but they did not catch his agonistic, complex relation to his predecessors: Foscolo, Leopardi, D'Annunzio. Montale culminates what Dante and Petrarch began, and Galassi subtly conveys this fulfillment of Italian poetic tradition.” —Harold Bloom